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from the if-i-remember-correctly dept Five Years Ago The fight for government transparency continued this week in 2014, with a judge giving the DOJ until the end of the month to submit a declassified FISA court opinion explaining the justifications for Sect…

The Trump administration has reportedly applied to reauthorize the NSA spying program that collected millions of U.S. citizens phone records. ASSOCIATED PRESS Concerns over civil liberties have been reignited after the Trump administration applied to reaut…

Her Story developer Sam Barlow's latest non-linear FMV spectacular, Telling Lies, finally has a release day: it'll be available on PC and iOS devices next Friday, 23rd August. Telling Lies, which is being published by Annapurna Interactive (What Remains of E…

The bigger, more involved follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2015 FMV game Her Story is coming in hot. All we've known for a while about when you could play the Annapurna-published Telling Lies was that it was coming in 2019. Turns out, that's extremely so…

Earlier: Housing Starts decline to 1.191 Million Annual Rate in July Total housing starts in July were below expectations, and starts for May and June were revised down.  The weakness was in the volatile multi-family sector. The housing starts report showed…

Huawei announced the Mate 20 X (5G) for the Chinese market on July 26, which is also when it started taking reservations for the device through its official online store, Vmall. The phone is scheduled to have its first sale on August 16. Up until this moment…

Does the National Security Agency, one of the most secretive agencies of the U.S. government, use Slack, the all-consuming chat app that for many of us has become our primary form of human contact? Yes, absolutelyand not only that, they use an off-the-shelf v…

A new task force has been created to protect US elections. Matt Anderson / Getty Images Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, said Wednesday a special task force has been created to focus on Russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 e…

Disrupt SF 2019 is set to be the biggest and best Disrupt yet. We’ve got a little something for everyone, including space chats with Lockheed Martin’s Marillyn Hewson and Blue Origin’s Bob Smith, a word from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, a fireside chat with two of …

From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission. Continuing economic uncertainty, fueled in great measure by ongoing trade disputes and worrisome economic weakness around the globe — combi…